World

Months ahead of the next year’s red carpet ceremony, Croatia, Romania, Kosovo and Bosnia have already chosen their own movies for the Best Foreign Language Film category. Bosnia and Herzegovina’s candidate for the Academy Awards Foreign...

The pro-Russian political forces in Moldova want to politically exploit the themes regarding the traditional family values. Moldova will host on Friday and Saturday a gathering of conservative, anti-gay and anti-abortion Christian groups called the World...

Having cancer changes everything; and when one of your closest friends dies from cancer, the world changes again, says Lauren Mahon. For Mahon, who co-presented the podcast You, Me and the Big C with Rachael Bland,...

Nearly two in every five women in the world who kill themselves are Indian, according to a Lancet study published this week that says the country’s suicides rates constitute a public health crisis. The rate of...

For more than a year, *Farkhad, 39, has lived with the uncertainty that his wife Mariam may be dead. *Mariam, 31, was visiting her hometown of Artush in Xinjiang, northwest China, in March 2017 when she sent...

Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al-Nahyan of the Abu Dhabi ruling family has spent more than £1.3bn directly investing into Manchester City since he took over in 2008, the club’s latest accounts have stated. That fortune has been in...

A member of the Russian protest group Pussy Riot who ran on to the pitch during the World Cup final is in intensive care in hospital after losing his vision and being unable to walk. Fellow members of...

GCHQ’s methods in carrying out bulk interception of online communications violated privacy and failed to provide sufficient surveillance safeguards, the European court of human rights has ruled in a test case judgment. But the Strasbourg court...

Earlier this year, one of Tom Watson’s local Labour party members emptied out his wardrobe and donated a load of clothes to the deputy leader so he would have something to wear for prime minister’s questions...

A video of Harvey Weinstein shows him appearing to proposition and repeatedly stroking the arm of a woman who later accused him of rape. Melissa Thompson, who sued Weinstein in June, said she made the recording, shown by Sky...